Compared to normal, I must say, this weekend was a culinary fiesta around here! Yesterday evening, I made green chile stew, which I’ve never made before. It was rather intensive since I bought fresh green chiles, pre-roasted at my local grocery store (so I even skipped a step), and then, glove-clad, peeled, seeded, [...]
Michelle Obama’s speech, the address given by Jesse Jackson, Jr., two electrifying oratories, Ted Kennedy’s appearance, one electrifying moment. Each, for different reasons, affected everyone in the room where I was watching. But Michelle’s was of greatest moment because she was there to put the lie to so many charges, misquotes, hatchet jobs, [...]
I hate to say it, but I had an awfully hard time getting here today. It’s not that I didn’t want to stop by and say hello; I like you guys too much for that. It’s just that it’s been way too pretty lately to be sitting inside at the computer. [...]
I have a little theory about summer. It’s called the Picnic Quota, and basically, the idea is this: that a person requires a certain number of picnics per summer (PPS) in order to maintain a reasonable level of happiness through the impending winter. The baseline PPS may vary slightly from person to person, [...]
We don’t use the fridge anymore. An experiment in how little electricity we can live off until that day when we go completely off-grid and use solar and wind. Oddly, I dont really miss it, the grumbling energy vampire refrigerator. I relish (going to make real relish soon) the silence at night and knowing that [...]
